The inches and feet symbol are only part ofthe complete resultset that I need to get. What I decided to do wasto keep the Binary search as I have it set up and get results thatway. If the search doesn't find a value then I run through the listof objects found in the result set one at a time. Because of thesorting differences the binary search finds the proper value about90% of the time, so the extra time searching after the fact does notadd alot.

I like your idea though, and may try it out down the road if thisproject turns into something more. It would require writing a methodto sort the values after I get them from SQL rather than letting SQLsort them up front.